A more learner-centered learning approach blends the best of the traditional classroom with more modern, digital learning environment tools and tactics. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of education, blended learning gets thrown around for any type of new education involving technology. To be honest, I hate [...]
So in the world of education, we typically have two "centric" types of classrooms. We have teacher-centered classrooms and we have student-centered classrooms. The modern push is for student-centered classrooms. But let's talk about that for a minute. So a teacher-centered classroom is usually described as a teacher in the front of the classroom, lecturing, [...]
So I had the fortunate opportunity to be asked to attend the School of the Future Symposium that was sponsored by Acchieve3000 out in San Diego, California. The goal of the symposium was to bring together numerous school districts from across the country to discuss the merits, progress, and future of using blended learning to better [...]
So I secretively have this bucket list of keynote presenters that I really want to see. Some of those on the list that I have already seen include Kevin Honeycutt, Tony Wagner, Leslie Fisher, Alice Keeler, George Couros, Michio Kaku and Rick Wormeli. But there are others that I have not yet been able to [...]
We just passed our tenth week of going One2One with our 5th and 6th graders and two full elementary schools. And I have to say, I could not be more excited about the great things that our staff is doing with our students and the technology. The goals for this year (the first year of [...]
So yesterday, I "graduated" from The Ohio State University from the Accelerated Superintendent Program. I say that I "graduated" because I really did not earn a degree from OSU, but I took the course work to be able to apply through the Ohio Department of Education to be granted my Superintendent License. The program actually [...]
Just recently I had the honor of meeting Tony Wagner, who is the author of "Most Likely to Succeed" and "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People that will Change the World". Through our Battelle For Kids SOAR partnership, I had the opportunity to be one of 65 people to get to spend 90 minutes [...]
Just say the words Professional Development around any teachers and most of the time you get a disgusted look and an explanation of wasted time. I think everyone has seen a variation of this picture: So the question needs to be asked how can we do professional development differently? How can we make PD purposeful [...]
As we (Pickerington Schools) venture into the world of Going One2One, I plan on posting a weekly update to the items, activities and leadership pieces that we have created and taken part of during the week. If you haven't read about our Going One2One program, I would encourage you to check out our website at: [...]
I recently found this image/quote on Dr. Justin Tarte Twitter's feed, which is a great follow by the way. But the quote here (from David Geurin) symbolizes everything that we are currently working towards. In the past technology drove the instruction, we could or could not reach students or learning objective based on the limitations [...]
Teaching & Learning with Technology 